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Notre Dame Ready For A Seismic Shakup?

Posted by srr50 on March 9th, 2010 under Football

All the recent talk about proposed conference expansion has centered around Texas being a prime target for either the Pac 10 or Big 10. Now the biggest domino in the BCS is indicating that maybe they are ready to look to make a safe fall. Touchdown Jesus may send the signal that Notre Dame is willing to play nice with others. The talk of the Big East basketball tournament is that the Fighting Irish
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Vasherized Willing to Listen if Bar Rafaeli Calls

Posted by Minnesotahorn on February 17th, 2010 under Football

In a move that surely elicited a deep belly laugh from Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delaney, Nebraska athletic director Tom Osborne announced Thursday that should the Big Ten decide that the Huskers and the greater Omaha area's 37 television sets are just too lucrative to pass up they might possibly be willing to entertain the notion of teaming up with those fellows and their $270 million yearly television revenues and prestigious and lucrative
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Can This Marriage Be Saved?

Posted by TaylorTRoom on February 16th, 2010 under Football

I think so, but it will take more vision than we are used to seeing from the current Big 12 leadership.
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Being Bill Powers

Posted by horninexile on February 15th, 2010 under Baseball

“What starts here changes the world.”
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Big 10 Getting Serious About Expansion

Posted by srr50 on February 12th, 2010 under Baseball

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Mess At Michigan

Posted by srr50 on February 4th, 2010 under Football

After winning just 8 games in his first two years at Michigan, Rich Rodriguez was looking forward to talking about his latest recruiting haul for the Wolverines. Michigan inked 27 players, the largest recruiting class in UM history, but at his press conference, Rich Rod had to spend time saying he knew nothing about the special session of the Board of Regents also held Wednesday to hear an update on the NCAA investigation
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Mack Brown Coaching Tree May Lose A Branch

Posted by srr50 on December 18th, 2009 under Football

On New Year's Eve 2006, Minnesota held a 38-7 lead over Texas Tech in the Insight Bowl, only to lose 44-41. Gopher Coach Glen Mason -- the only Minnesota football coach with a winning record over the past 40 years -- was fired. Now his replacement, Tim Brewster is back in the Insight Bowl, and the media is already calling for his head. Minneapolis-St. Paul columnist Jim Souhan ripped into the Athletics Director, Joel Maturi,
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Rich Rod & Michigan: A Transition in Trouble

Posted by srr50 on September 1st, 2009 under Football

The University of Michigan, the winningest program in college football, will open their season this Saturday with Western Michigan at home. Over 104,000 fans will be there and most of them won't have the faintest idea as to what kind of team, or what kind of season the Wolverines will have. That's because they aren't real sure if they have the right coach. At an emotional news conference Monday, Rich Rodriguez defended his program against
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The SEC TV Contract – What it Means to The Big 12

Posted by srr50 on August 4th, 2009 under Football

the ACC, Big 10, Big East and the Pac 10. Heading into the 2009 football season, the Southeastern Conference is begining a 15-year deal with ESPN and CBS that makes the conference "A First Among Equals" in the BCS. While the numbers are staggering in terms of money flowing to SEC schools, the ramifactions of the contracts reach beyond the bottom line. But first and foremost, it is the money that catches your attention. REVENUE "Timing Is
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ESPN, SEC to reach into Big 12 Territory…

Posted by srr50 on July 22nd, 2009 under Basketball

...and the ACC, Big 10, the Big East and the Pac 10 with their new TV contract. ESPN Regional Television, the new over-the-air syndication home for some Southeastern Conference programming , announced a regionally syndicated college sports package that will air in more than 73 television markets including Dallas-Ft. Worth, Houston and San Antonio. The regional package will be branded as the SEC network, and it will broadcast 13 SEC football games across the